This is indeed a downside but there are workarounds -- The wikimedia foundation put out a good blog post talking about getting HTTP connection pooling for PHP

This is indeed a downside but there are workarounds -- The wikimedia foundation put out a good blog post talking about getting HTTP connection pooling for PHP https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/10/26/impact-of-using-http-connection-pooling-for-php-applications-at-scale/ https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/10/26/impact-of-using-ht... TLDR they used envoy proxy as a sidecar container. So to your point its a pain but still achievable